
Facebook targets individual spammers with latest news feed tweak
Facebook is getting more tactical in its war against spammy links invading people’s news feeds. After pinpointing individual spammy...

Instagram debuts tool for celebrities, publishers to label sponsored posts, Stories
Instagram is a popular place for brands to pay celebrities and publishers to piggyback their organic audiences. But if those celebrities...

Facebook rolls out software tool to make AMP, Apple News pages more like Instant Articles
Ever since Facebook officially opened up Instant Articles to all websites last year, publishers, brands and other site owners have had to...

Facebook wants to automate publishers’ direct-sold video ad deals
Already a dominant audience conduit, Facebook is looking to play an even bigger role in publishers’ ad businesses. A year after Facebook...

Facebook will live-stream 20 MLB games starting Friday
Facebook may have missed out on streaming the country’s most popular sport, but it has signed a deal to broadcast America’s pastime....

FAQ: Everything Facebook has admitted about its measurement errors
To paraphrase J. Cole, Facebook messes up on its math one time; shame on Facebook. Facebook messes up on its math a second time; shame on...

Facebook admits its 10th measurement mistake since September
Facebook has messed up on its math again. More notable than the error itself is the fact that, by my count, this is the tenth measurement...

Instagram copies Snapchat’s selfie masks, as Facebook and Messenger already have
Instagram has copied Snapchat’s _____ feature that _________. On Instagram, the feature is called ______. (Sorry, I forgot to fill in my...

The most important thing to know about Facebook’s ad load problem
For almost a year, Facebook has warned that sometime in the middle of 2017 the social network will max out the number of ads it can...

Facebook’s Q1 2017 earnings report in 6 charts
Facebook continues to make a ton of money… … but for months, Facebook execs have warned that its advertising revenue growth will slow...

Snapchat will tell brands how many people saw their ads, then visited their stores, restaurants
In the growing rivalry between Facebook Inc. and Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc., Facebook’s strategy seems to be copying Snapchat’s...

Facebook now has more than 5 million monthly advertisers
Facebook execs continue to caution investors that its advertising revenue growth will soon decelerate. But so far, the social network’s...

Inside chatbots’ year of growing pains: ‘We’re at an inflection point’
A year ago, chatbots reemerged atop a mountain of hype that messaging marked tech’s latest paradigm shift, after messaging apps...

How to track Facebook’s ratio of ads to organic posts in your desktop news feed
Some time this year, Facebook will max out the number of ads it can squeeze into people’s news feeds. But how many ads is Facebook...

Facebook adopts header bidding to make its ad network more competitive with Google’s
Long story short: Facebook’s ad network is challenging ad networks run by Google and others to see who can get publishers the best deals...

Instagram now has more than 1M advertisers, doubling in past 6 months
It has been a year and a half since Instagram rolled out the welcome mat to all advertisers. Remember that as you read the next sentence....

Facebook Messenger copies Facebook’s copy of Instagram’s copy of Snapchat Stories
At least they changed the name this time. On Thursday, Facebook Messenger officially rolled out its copy of Facebook’s copy of...

Facebook to phase out Atlas brand, shift tools & clients to Facebook’s products
Facebook is finally phasing out Atlas, the ad server and measurement platform that it acquired from Microsoft in February 2013 and has...

Facebook opens mid-roll ads to more Live broadcasters, starts non-live test
Facebook is opening up its video ad revenue stream to more publishers and creators, though it’s not giving advertisers any more control...
























